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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: I was at the dinner party when the text came disinviting me

Plus: does a 14-year-old need to tip; and how do I stop having to drive my adult children about?

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

Q. While renting in Rock last week, I ran into an acquaintance who invited me to join her large house party for supper the next night. Looking back, the group of ten or so did seem oddly surprised to see me when I arrived. Then, during the pudding course, I looked discreetly down at an incoming text and saw the reply to my own earlier text saying I was looking forward to seeing her later.

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